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(Disclaimer: News may or may not be in any particular chronological and/or thematic order)

- In perhaps the biggest news piece last week, the popular English-language scanlation site Mangastream has taken down and cancelled the translation/distribution of all the Shonen JUMP titles
they’ve been working on, at the demands of VIZ Media. Of course, among those titles is “One Piece”:

- Thanks to the website Nico Nico, we have some pictures of snow sculptures taken at this year’s
Sapporo Snow Festival, which takes place in Hokkaido Prefecture. Among the sculptures were
Luffy and Chopper:

- We have Oricon’s Japanese comic rankings for the week of January 30th to February 5th. In its debut week, “One Piece” #65 sold an estimated 1,934, 961 copies, debuting at the #1 spot. “One Piece” #64
went from 46th to 21st place and sold an estimated 27, 107 copies for an estimated total of 3,026, 263
copies. In addition, the spin-off series “Chopperman: Yukeyuke! Minna no Chopper-Sensei debuted at
25th place. It sold an estimated total of 24,948 copies.

As of last week, “One Piece” #64 is the 8th straight volume in a row of the series (since #57) to sell
past 3-million copies:

- Recently the Seiyu Fan blog posted the top 10 Japanese voice actors and actresses as ranked by their amount of Twitter followers. Among those seiyuu is Akio Ohtsuka, the voice of Blackbeard,
Captain Joke, and Baron Omatsuri at #7:

Now just because a trademark has been made that doesn’t mean it’ll actually get an official releasein America. Still, this is a great sign, and I encourage fans to really let Namco Bandai know you want this game!

- There’s also a rumor that just came out about “Pirate Warriors”. There may be 1-2 player online multiplayer, voice chat, and perhaps be at 4 GB install. That is, if the following back-cover box art isreal:

- Some more new info and screenshots for “Kaizoku Musou” came courtesy of Famitsu. The story mode will be called “Main Log”, and features narration from Mahito Ooba, who has provided the same role for other “One Piece” video games and has played some roles in the TV anime. Adventure stages will have Luffy overcoming various obstacles, while Musou stages will be battle-centric:

- And a reminder from the One Piece en Castellano Facebook page; Boing has just started airing new Water Seven episodes. If you live in Spain, be sure to catch new episodes of the dub Monday to Friday at 21:20 P.M. (9:20 P.M.)